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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-order-1997/schedule-3B/paragraph-1",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1997/1984",
  "legislation_title": "The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Order 1997",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/rent-officers-housing-benefit-functions-order-1997",
  "path": "schedule/3B/paragraph/1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Categories of dwelling",
  "text": "(1) The categories of dwelling for which a rent officer is required to determine a local housing allowance in accordance with article 4B(2A)(a) are—\n(a) a dwelling where the tenant has the exclusive use of only one bedroom and where the tenancy provides for him to share the use of one or more of—\n(i) a kitchen;\n(ii) a bathroom;\n(iii) a toilet; or\n(iv) a room suitable for living in;\n(b) a dwelling where the tenant (together with his partner where he has one) has the exclusive use of only one bedroom and exclusive use of a kitchen, a bathroom, a toilet and a room suitable for living in;\n(c) a dwelling where the tenant has the use of only two bedrooms;\n(d) a dwelling where the tenant has the use of only three bedrooms;\n(e) a dwelling where the tenant has the use of only four bedrooms;\n( f ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(2) In—\n(a) sub-paragraph (1)(b) “partner” has the same meaning as in regulation 2 of the Housing Benefit Regulations or, as the case may be, regulation 2 of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations ;\n(b) sub-paragraph (1)(c) to (e) “bedroom” means a bedroom, except for a bedroom which the tenant shares with any person other than—\n(i) a member of his household;\n(ii) a non-dependant of the tenant (within the meaning of regulation 3 of the Housing Benefit Regulations or, as the case may be, regulation 3 of the Housing Benefit (State Pension Credit) Regulations ); or\n(iii) a person who pays rent to the tenant.",
  "extent": "E+W+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Sch. 3B inserted (20.3.2008) by Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Amendment Order 2007 (S.I. 2007/2871), arts. 1(3), 4(4) (with art. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3B para. 1(1) substituted (E.W.) (2.4.2012) by The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) (Amendment) Order 2012 (S.I. 2012/646) , arts. 1 , 2(4)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Sch. 3B para. 1(1)(f) omitted (18.3.2011) by virtue of The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Amendment Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2836) , arts. 1(2) , 2(3)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Sch. 3B para. 1(2)(b) substituted (18.3.2011) by The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit Functions) Amendment Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2836) , arts. 1(2) , 2(3)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Sch. 3B modified (28.1.2021) by The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Modification) Order 2020 (S.I. 2020/1519), arts. 1, 2"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C2",
      "text": "Sch. 3B modified (31.1.2022) by The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Amendment and Modification) Order 2021 (S.I. 2021/1380), arts. 1(1), 5"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C3",
      "text": "Sch. 3B modified (31.1.2023) by The Rent Officers (Housing Benefit and Universal Credit Functions) (Modification) Order 2023 (S.I. 2023/6), arts. 1(1), 2"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/1984/schedule/3B/paragraph/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T11:58:21.166385+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}